1986: Watching my Dem Socialist grandfather go through "Reagan Derangement Syndrome" while watching the Iran/Contra hearings.
1986: Watching the ball go through Bill Buckner's legs in Game Six, and seeing my Mets take the series the next day.
1987: Release of "Appetite for Destruction."
Watching Walter Cronkite near tears as he announced the 40th President of the United States would be Ronald Wilson Reagan.
You had to mention Billy B.
Yeah...that hurt.
I think your grandfather and my grandmother must have been twins. She'd froth at the mouth talking about Reagan at the tip of a hat.